I am a question to the world

Please note: his thoughts are his own, I DO NOT agree with any of his "reasonings" for his following actions. Rose is a sick man

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A wickedness spread through him like venom.

Twisting and curdling into something different than before. She looked up at him. Eyes wide with a certain innocence that dared to tame what was festering.

Flesh rolled as muscles twitched, fighting internally what should be done.

He had to take her. He thought. An ear twisting away. Perhaps this was why she kept popping up. Frightened of the lightning strikes, pathetically coated in muck - originally trying to cling to his sides before being chased away with brutish words.

The world was too cruel for her, he deemed. She was safer with him - and comfortable enough to get this close and demand to share the den. Towering over her, he grumbled with a heated breath. “Claiming what is mine now.” She was safer with him, he deemed. Safer with a beast than on her own because he knew there were far worse monsters out there lurking in the dark than he.

Creeping to stand over her, chest pressing against her back his intentions here would be clear to nearly anyone else - and her if she was wiser. Thick paws and jagged claws reaching to grasp her hips beneath him. She'd smell like him, he decided here and now.

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Claiming what is mine now.

Perhaps the small, sunshine girl should have been scared, terrified even, with the man of harsh ice standing over her, speaking such words. But Mother had never taught Persephone anything about the other sex; only that they were wicked and stupid. Persie, however, did not immediately subscribe to Mother's way of thinking, even though it might have saved her now.

“Y-yours?” She asked, the stutter in her words involuntarily a response to the tension in their little den. With his chest against her spine, a thrill shot down the supple spine of the girl, moments before she was pulled closer, a gasp jumping from her throat. “Rose?” She asked again, though she couldn't do more than whisper, body instinctively responding to him in the ways of a female towards a dominant and forthright male; her tail swished to the side, stirring the dirt beneath them, though she did squirm beneath his heavy grasp.

“What do you mean yours?”

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She questioned - and he remained silent. Not wanting to spell out the sick thoughts that swirled within him, piecing together reasons and excuses for what he was inevitably was going to do. She didn't run. Instead, whether she knew it or not, her body spoke of inviting whispers. Her warmth drawing him in. The sweet feminine scent that drowned his senses including the common one that was muted long ago.

“What do you mean yours?” She continued, and his maw reached for her ear. Pulling her into him, pressing enough on her to keep them two steady but not crushingly so either by propping himself up with hind legs. “As mine, I'll keep you safe.” Perhaps he was simply done waiting for a woman, a bride who could put up with him. Maybe now, ultimately at the end of it all with his growing age... he was just going to take one that seemed fitting. Persephone fit that.

“Big breath in.” Judging by how oblivious she was to it all. To him aligning himself, pulling her toward the crook of his hips. “And out.—” His voice gravelly - pushing into her with some expert guidance from his part. Giving the woman some time to adjust, pausing without loosening grip off of her so she could finally come to realization what she had gotten herself into.

She had been warned after all. He had tried to keep away. He told her he wasn't a good man.

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Safe. Persephone knew the word, knew the feeling associated with it. Did she want to be safe? Did she want to be careful and wary of everything in the world, like Mother had taught her to be? She would have time to figure that out later.

Big breath in.

She did and then --

pain. She yelped, pain that she'd never experienced before making her try to scramble away, claws scrabbling. He pierced her, filled her, bled her, took her. Heat prickled at her eyes as she attempted to get away, something he did not let her do, his forelegs tight around her tiny frame.

Seconds that felt like minutes passed by, breath hitching as she tried to take in another deep pull of air. Then another, and another until she evened out a little more, a soft whimper emitted as she tried to look at him. This only cause her to shift beneath him and—

Persephone gasped with the feeling, flushing rapidly as her shock rippled up her spine. Tiny golden body froze beneath the man, suddenly unsure of everything.

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He took her - fully, entirely, his. Contrary to the facts - he didn't want to hurt her. Such things just happened, some discomfort and pain for now - he took it slow - soon would blossom to pleasure if she relaxed. She had given him 'permission' by moving her tail out of the way, by leaning into his body (to readers this is his thoughts, not mine).

Her body rejected him at first. Squeezing, squirming. He didn't move until she was ready, or at least as ready as she'll ever be.

He took his time. Truly falling for his own lies to make sense of this all, to paint himself not as a villain but something else. A tainted knight perhaps. Who's armour wasn't white, but stained in red.

This one he wasn't going to let go of.

This one was his.

“Keep breathing,” He encouraged with a bliss-filled groan.

It would all be over soon and perhaps then, she too, would be tired enough to rest and wait out the storm for them both to move on.

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The hurt melted into something else, something even more confusing than before, if that was possible. She wasn't sure it was. All she was sure of was the way his weight bore down on her, the way his... the way she felt with him sliding in and out of her, still wincing every so often but less and less as time went on.

It didn't take very long, another feeling washing over her as he finished with her, pink eyes rolling back into her head as eyelids fluttered closed. A sound left her throat, entirely involuntary, throat constricting just as her body did around him. She squirmed again, gasping as something... expanded in her, making her try to pull away only to find her self stuck and unable to move, while at the same time, another ripple of pleasure rushed through her.

In the end, the golden sunshine girl collapsed to the ground beneath him, panting heavily and worn out from the entire ordeal, body trembling every so often as little shockwaves took over.

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He could never understand or grasp the receiving end of it all. Honestly, he believed their pain came from only fighting it. That was what he was taught after all. They would all get accustomed eventually - and though Rose often tried to fight against his father’s teachings, some evidently stuck.

He was a barbarian, trying to handle fine china. Doing his best to not shatter the porcelain he took.

She squeezed still, a soft sound coming from her encouraged it all. To bury himself in every part he could reach, and leave behind a part of him once it was all over. Persephone had no strength left and collapsed back onto the ground, more tired now than ever before.

She’d smell like him for days now.

Wanting to go again, heavy breaths heaved from his lungs as he stood where she lay… until choosing to lay down himself taking the spot he had previously relinquished before taking her for himself. The smell of the rain pouring outside remained thick in the air, this time perfumed with adultery and sin - the latter was solely on him. A burden he had grown all too accustomed to.

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Her collapse was limbless, the hard ground a pillow as she breathed heavy and hard. She was exhausted from the activity, her tiny body quivering with tiredness. Not so much fear, now, especially not as he lay next to her. Her confusion, for now, was distant.

And so, the little lamb curled up against and with the savage lion, falling into a deep sleep quicker than she had since she'd re-arrived back in this land.

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